SpinRite and or HDD Regenerator may cause those bad areas to at least be refreshed even if the contents are not the original lost data, but hey, if the data's been lost, then the data's been lost, and at least those sectors will no longer cause read time-out errors.Īfter data has been copied out, then we can re-prep the drive using SpinRite and or HDD Regenerator to refresh the surface with savvy pass-fail integrity testing, then reformat and reinstall any operating system or user data, just as we would with a new drive taken out of the new packaging when purchased new.
If a wide swath of sectors are unreadable, the copy-out process may time-out due to retries, in that case, intelligently-programmed copy-out software may force itself to skip read errors, and continue copying out what it can. If the data is not there, SpinRite and HDD Regenerator will bulldoze through and refresh the surface, and make the user data area reportback whatever was findable, which may be look inaccurate compared to what the user wanted, but, hey, f the data is t there, then the data is't there.
Both SpinRite and HDD Regenerator are useful for making some iffy drives useful again, but seldom are SpinRite and HDD Regenerator the best tools for recovering and copying out data - neither of these programs have ANY copy-out features, that's not what they do.Ĭopy out data without writing to the bad drive itself, using any clone or unstoppable copy scheme is best, hardware clone docks, or software clone, yet some data may be lost because, hey it's not there.